The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-10-27
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Items OF lnterest From Both Sides
of the Divide.

Of the Divide.
Notes Clipped and Condensed From
Exchanges Published Within
the Territory.
The assessed wealth of Helena is ST.
777,O0O.
The grand jury of Yellowstone county
rendered thirteen indictments.
Shawnut postofice, Meagher county,
has recently been discontinued.
New Idea: The latest society fad on
the tapis in Corvallis is literary society.
The Butte papers complain of the in
crease of vags thugs and thieves in the
city.
Nearly three hundred men are employ
ed in putting in the new water works at
Helena.
Ed. Delaney, an old miner and stock
owner of Helena, died there early Satur-
day morning.
Capt. Thomas Gawey, 1st Cavalry, will
be courtmartialed at Fort Keogh on the
7th of November
The assessment of Yellowstone county
this year is $2,205,248, decrease from
last year of $90,449.
The Scotch Canadian Cattle company
| realized profit of $1.25per head on their
shipments this season.
The election of the Colonel of the
First Regiment of Montana Militia takes
place at Butte on the 29th.
Anna Ivors, domestic in the house.
hold of F. r. Wallace, Helena, committed
suicide by taking poison last Friday.
The Jury in the Miner libel suit, after
being out twenty-four hours, returned a
verdict for the plaintiffs of $500 and costs.
The Miner will appeal.
| Robt. Lee Word, a son of Hon. Samuel
Word, has been appointed Clerk of the
Supreme Court of Montana. The ap-
pointment has been worthily bestowed.
! Samuel Hutchinson, who was sentenc-
ed last September at Fort Benton to
sixty days in Jail and to pay fine OF ST.
600, has been pardoned by Governor Les
lie.
The capacity OF the Helena Mining and
Reduction company's works has been
again increased by a recent lease OF the
works of the Boulder mining and reduc-
works.
The Helena Independent is authority
for the statement that freight rates OF
the MANITOBA railroad will be one-third
less than on the Northern Pacific or Un-
ion Pacific
Moritz Koch has been appointed busl-
ness manager of the Miner, to fill the va
cancy occasioned by Mr.. Alderson's
resignation. He will take charge the LIST
of November.
The Missoulian says that David Hooke
of Burnt Fork has raised this year 2,5OO
pounds of standard apples, 1,5O0 pounds
of Transcendent Crabs, and 4, 900 quarts
of strawberries.
Vice-President Potter has telegraphed
to Butte a reduction of the freight rate
on salt to 5000 per ton. This does not
include the switching or first cost of the
salt and consequently is a reduction o1
only So or less.
Orth Stein, representing himself as
writer on the Century magazine, commits
stoned tc write-up Helena, did the First
National Bank up for 1925. Helena is
always gullable when it is a question OF
being advertized.
Inter Mountain: Sunday afternoon
a large heating stove, red hot, toppleo
over in the Clarendon with damaging re-
suits to the stove. AS soon as it was put
in place again chandelier containing
six lamps fell from the ceiling.
A large number of men are working or
the grade of the Rocky Fork & Cook CITY
railroad. and it is the intention of th'
managers of the road to have it full.
completed to the coal mines, forty miles
in sixty days, if the weather will permit.
One OF the large stacks of hay, contain
ing 125 tons, belonging to Clark Bros. 1
Co., sheepman of Choteau, was set o,
fire by some unknown incendiary during
the night of the 18th and entirely de
stroyed. Loss about $1,000, covered b,
insurance.
} A row occurred at the Warm Springs
near Helena, Sunday, between an Italian
D named Girard d. Antonio and mai
J. named Robert Pelltier. The italian wa